Rajiv Dixit, an Indian physicist and Swadeshi movement pioneer, died in 2010. (b. 1967)
Rajiv Dixit was an activist who lived from November 30, 1967, until November 30, 2010. He was the national secretary of the Bharat Swabhiman Trust and an outspoken supporter of Hindu agitation. In Firozabad, he acquired his elementary and secondary schooling. Dixit died on November 30, 2010, in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, of heart arrest, according to his death certificate. Ramdev and Rajiv's brother Pradeep performed the cremation.
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